Press Releases

Rev. Sharpton, Kadiatou Diallo, Community Leaders to Denounce Promotion of Officer Kenneth Boss

For Immediate ReleaseDecember 18, 2015

Contact: Rachel Noerdlinger

Phone: 212-681-1380

AT NAN’S SATURDAY ACTION RALLY, REV. AL SHARPTON, KADIATOU DIALLO, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS WILL DENOUNCE THE UNJUST PROMOTION OF NYPD OFFICER KENNETH BOSS WHO SHOT AND KILLED UNARMED AND INNOCENT AMADOU DIALLO

Rev. Sharpton will also discuss the need for comprehensive reform to New York’s civil service laws which recklessly allowed Officer Kenneth Boss to be wrongfully promoted

Amadou Diallo was killed in 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets while standing innocently and unarmed in the entry way to his home in the Bronx; Kadiatou Diallo will detail why the promotion is “a stab in the heart”

WHO: Rev. Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, Kadiatou Diallo, Amadou Diallo’s mother, NAN Community Leaders

WHAT: NAN weekly rally and radio broadcast featuring Rev. Al Sharpton, Kadiatou Diallo and Community Leaders denouncing unjust promotion of Officer Kenneth Boss and protesting the broken civil service system that allowed this to happen
WHEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2015

10:00 a.m. remarks

WHEN: National Action Network – 106 West 145th Street @ Malcolm X Ave.

Watch the livestream at www.nationalactionnetwork.net or listen live on WLIB 1190 AM

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